The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
FOR THE FARMERS.


Do not be afraid to thin out fruit or
plants. The same rule will apply to root
crops.
Carrots often receive great injury from a
few days neglect in weeGing at this season.
Fowls will eat great deal of granulated
charcoal, As preventive of disease il
is invaluable.
Boiled potatoes, meat scraps, table
crumbs, etc. serve a better purpose in the
hen house than in the swill barrel.
AT least one POULTRY ration day-in the
morning-should be soft food-ground
grain mixed with water or milk.
A farmer in Kentucky keeps the worms
off cabbage by sp7lnkling with two gallons
OF water mixed with one gallon of butter
milk.
The market grower is liable 10 make
great mistake who overlooks the neignbor-
ing home market, trusting to the large
towns only.
Sulphur and tobacco leaves burnei in
the poultry house, the house being closed
perfectly tight, viii clean out the red lice,
says contemporary.
Plants may be grown in comparatively
small pots ii watered occasionally with q
weak solution of guano, hens drop pings.
or sulphate of ammonia.
must be fair and large, while small, in
ferior fruit of any kind is not worth the
trouble OF sending to market.
Grass should be cut, if possible, when il
is dry. When help is plenty it is better to
do this work in the afternoon, after the
heat of the day has partially subsidized.
There are over fifty poultry associations
in the United States that annually give ex-
hibitions. They have been instrumental
in greatly advancing the poultry interests.
Coal ashes are not fit for the dust-box I'M
til the cinders have been sifted out. A
hen cannot throw coal cinder on her back
They are too heavy beside, they hurt her
feet
Farm horses protected by thin blank cts
from flies IN hot weather.Wiu keep in good
condition much more easily than il ex-
posed to the torment of innumerable bites
during all the hours of the long, hot day s.
There is considerable ground in the gar.
den that for several months of good corn
weather produces nothing but weeds, where
as it could be made TO afford feed for many
pound of 50 cent butter in supplement-
ing the pastures.
Young lawns after the first winter, have
more or less low places, where unequal set
Element has occurred, and these want to be
filled up until good, even surfaces are pro-
duced, then .e-seed all gaps with fresh seed,
and roll with an l, 500 pound sectional
roller.
The object of blowing corn in dry sea.
son is not so much to kill the weeds as to
form mulch of dry dirt that will con.
dense the moisture in the shape of dew,
and that will conserve or save the moisture
that comes up from the hidden reservoirs
below.
The grand hall staircase in the new Equi-
table Building in New York City includes
specimens of the finest and rarest marbles
of the entire world. Drafts have been
made upon the historic Roman quarries
and the marble mines of India aud other
countries where rare qualities of stone have
been discovered. The grouping of these
specimens has been no small labor.
Danbury is rather fond of its ten-year-
old girl ball player; but her parents are
not. She is said to catch with perfect ease,
grace and accuracy, even the highest fly
being captured with rare judgment. She
does rot throw overbanded like girls in
general. but puts it in from the shoulder
in the true style, Her parents have pun
nished her in various ways for playing
ball on the street. 1t does no good, as he
passion for it amounts to a mania.
A night or two since, while Mrs Emma
retire she CHANGED to lift up one of the
pillows of the bed, in doing which she dis
turbed large blue racer that had coiled
itself underneath to snooze. Her screams
aroused the household, and the intruding
reptile was soon dispatched. As large
maple grew near the house the snake is
supposed to have climed up that and out
on its branches to reach her room, which
was on the second floor.
Col. Batcheldor, the official historian of
Gettysburg and an officer in the Gettys-
burg Memorial Association. has received
au order from the War Department for turn
ing over to him 40 field pieces complete,
which, as fast as received, are to be placed
in the positions where they were used IN
the battle. This is the number of guns in
the batteries of the regular army which
took part in the fight. The guns now to
be furnished are not in all cases the identi-
cal ones which were used in the battle, but
they will be of the same patterns. The
order is under an act of Congress making
a donation of these guns for the purpose
indicated.
Winter rye appears to be decl easing
rather than increasing in popularity in
Ontario, good many farmers who sowed
it in past years confessing that they find it
too Improbable. The crop seems to be
in pretty good condition, the frosts affect
ing but slightly the light soils on which it
is usually grown. The cultivation of this
cereal, however, can hardly be said to be
general in any section of the province, but
there are patches of it to be found in most
counties, and occasionally even in the
district of Muskoka In Central and
Eastern Ontario it is found in greater
abundance than in the West, but even
here the reports seem to show falling off
in the acreage. In the western group of
counties, Norfolk appears to be the only
county in which any considerable area is
grown, and this is also the only county, IN
which the acreage seems to have made
any Increase.
The canning of green peas. which is now
a busy industry in Delaware is an interest
ing process. The peas are shelled by hand
and then fed into the hopper of separa-
tor. which divides them into three grades.
Then they are put into copper kettles,
where they are steamed just enough to
wrinkle the outer skin and and intensity If
possible the vivid green of the pea. They
are then filled into cans, which are placed
in an iron tray and dipped into trough
or tray of boiling water. which runs into
the cans filling them to the brim. This
water contains whatever OF a preventative
nature is put into the cans to preserve the
vegetable. The cans are then wiped, seal
ed and packed in iron cages each cage
holding 24S cans. These cages are put into
afr-fioht staam kattlea where the cans are